Published 17:39 IST, March 17th 2020
Microsoft Bing launches website to track coronavirus developments
The Microsoft Bing team recently launched a web portal to track the global progress of coronavirus. The new website comes as COVID-19 has gripped 162 nations.
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Microsoft Bing team recently launched a web portal to track global progress of coronavirus. new website comes as COVID-19 has gripped 162 nations, infecting 1,85,461 and killing nearly 7,332, international media reported. According to reports, website aggregates data from a variety of sources including World Health Organisation, US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Also features interactive map
website provides up-to-date information on all affected countries. It also features an interactive map that allows users to see a specific number of cases in area y select. In dition, newly launched portal also provides a range of articles published related to topic.
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This comes just two days after US President Donald Trump anunced that Google h begun working on COVID-19-related portal for US citizens. According to reports, Google's website is being built by Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet focused on healthcare services. Talking about Google's portal, Trump said that more than 1,700 engineers were currently working on website.
Meanwhile, International Court of Justice (ICJ) on March 17, released a statement that court will be postponing public hearings of case Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 (Guyana v Venezuela). public hearings of case were scheduled to be held between 23 March - 27 March 2020. court based in Hague, Nerlands stated that new dates will be issued in due course.
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In dition, Trump on March 17 said that pandemic which has infected thousands and brought lives across countries to a standstill could end by July in United States. dely virus has till w infected over 4727and killed nearly 93 across American mainland. " So it seems to me that if we do a really good job... people are talking about July, August, something like that. So it could be right in that period of time where it, I say, it washes through,” he told White House reporters.
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17:39 IST, March 17th 2020